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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2004-07-22 20:54:33 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2004-07-22 20:54:33 +0000
commit3f565ee1fe8e562dafda995b6b629af36f95ab5b (patch)
treef9ba1c7720a81150babc210b647ea3c7a6065e82
parent255eb9cf44100e5fbd269e7ccf04faafb0c38f73 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-3f565ee1fe8e562dafda995b6b629af36f95ab5b.tar.xz
(tail invocation): Do not ignore -f for
all pipes, just for when standard input is a pipe and no file operand is specified.
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 007c8b45e..6f93e10dc 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -2426,8 +2426,8 @@ by 1048576.
@vindex name @r{follow option}
@vindex descriptor @r{follow option}
Loop forever trying to read more characters at the end of the file,
-presumably because the file is growing. This option is ignored when
-reading from a pipe.
+presumably because the file is growing. This option is ignored if
+no @var{file} operand is specified and standard input is a pipe.
If more than one file is given, @command{tail} prints a header whenever it
gets output from a different file, to indicate which file that output is
from.